"I'm sure he meant to keep me fully informed," I answered starchily. From Wordnik.com. [A Body In The Bath House]
A nurse came in starchily, glanced in doubt at Alleyn, and went out again. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursing Home Murder]
Are they snapping starchily at their poles or hanging like last week's lettuce?. From Wordnik.com. [Back in the swing at the Open again thanks to cricket's silly season] Reference
It creaked starchily under her hands; it opened out before Miss Theodosia's horrified vision. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings] Reference
She said starchily, quite sorry that she had apologised, "We shall expect you in the morning, Dr. Cameron.". From Wordnik.com. [A Kind Of Magic]
And he was now starchily respectable: a baronet, a magistrate, and alderman of Wapping, responsible for law and order along London's waterfront. From Wordnik.com. [A Place Called Freedom]
I called him back and starchily said, "Look here, my good man, I can take this to Spielberg or Disney if you're not interested in having a live Prince of England in your next movie.". From Wordnik.com. [Royal Pain] Reference
In December, in the run-up to the Iowa caucuses, John Edwards starchily said in an NPR radio debate, “My kids will not have toys coming from China” for Christmas, presumably because they were tainted. From Wordnik.com. [Rhetorical Questions] Reference
The Nurse got up, rustling starchily, and Billy caught her eye. From Wordnik.com. [Love Stories] Reference
She rustled starchily from the room, to give the dread message to Mary, who promptly flew upstairs, voluble with distress. From Wordnik.com. [Flaming June] Reference
She was just her stiff, ugly self, starchily clad in the most beautifully tailored white linen, and they all went mad about her. From Wordnik.com. [The Tinder-Box] Reference
Pretty Woman was a "plastic screwball soap opera," and I complained, a bit starchily, that "These are the kinds of characters who exist nowhere but in the minds of callowly manipulative Hollywood screenwriters.". From Wordnik.com. [EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines] Reference
Wyeth gave America a prim and flinty view of Puritan rectitude, starchily sentimental, through parched gray and brown pictures of spooky frame houses, desiccated fields, deserted beaches, circling buzzards and craggy-faced New Englanders. From Wordnik.com. [linkfilter.net - fresh links] Reference
The nurse by this time had donned her uniform and rattled up starchily to take her place at the bedside, and Morton and the doctor went away, the doctor to step once more into the lady's room below to see if she was feeling quite herself again after her faint. From Wordnik.com. [Lo, Michael!] Reference
Despite his upbeat take on Splendor, Crowther was no fan of Beatty’s, and wrote starchily, Everyone in this story is madly in love with a disgusting young man who is virtually a cretin. From Wordnik.com. [STAR] Reference
This season’s offender-in-chief was “Shrek the Musical,” a commodity musical whose big production number, “Freak Flag,” is a starchily self-conscious public-service announcement in which the show’s cartoon characters proclaim the virtues of Being Different at endless length. From Wordnik.com. [Broadway’s No-Hitter] Reference
"Wyeth offered a prim and flinty view of Puritan American rectitude, starchily sentimental, through parched gray and brown pictures of spooky frame houses, desiccated fields, deserted beaches, circling buzzards and craggy-faced New Englanders. From Wordnik.com. [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference
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